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The governor of China’s central bank and finance minister of the world’s second biggest economy appear to be joining a widening Chinese boycott of the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund because it is taking place in Japan.

The decision by People’s Bank of China governor Zhou Xiaochuan came in the form of a sudden cancellation of the speech he was to give in Tokyo on Sunday.

His deputy will deliver the speech in Mr Zhou’s place, but Tokyo officials said that “the message intended by China was plain”.